Fireworks of Star Formation Light Up a Galaxy
esahubble_opo0001a January 6th, 2000
Credit: NASA/ESA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI)
Newly released images obtained with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope in July 1997 reveal episodes of star formation that are occurring across the face of the nearby galaxy NGC 4214. Located some 13 million light-years from Earth, NGC 4214 is currently forming clusters of new stars from its interstellar gas and dust. In the Hubble image, we can see a sequence of steps in the formation and evolution of stars and star clusters. The picture was created from exposures taken in several colour filters with Hubble's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0001a/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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Image Details
Position Details
Color Mapping
- ID
- opo0001a
- Subject Category
- C.5.3.3
- Subject Name
- IRAS 12131+3636, NGC 4214, NGC 4228
- Credits
- NASA/ESA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI)
- Release Date
- 2000-01-06T07:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0001a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- WFPC2, WFPC2, WFPC2, WFPC2, WFPC2, WFPC2
- Color Assignment
- Band
- Infrared, Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical, Ultraviolet
- Bandpass
- I, R, H-alpha, V, OIII, U
- Central Wavelength
- 814, 702, 656, 555, 502, 336
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 183.9091624, 36.3249281
- Reference Dimension
- 1064.0, 710.0
- Reference Pixel
- 533.0, 356.0
- Scale
- 2.74818528477e-05, 2.75418133253e-05
- Rotation
- 121
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- WCS info from NASA/Hubble
- Creator (Curator)
- ESA/Hubble
- URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/
- Name
- Telephone
- Address
- Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2
- City
- Garching bei München
- State/Province
- Postal Code
- D-85748
- Country
- Germany
- Rights
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Publisher
- ESA/Hubble
- Publisher ID
- esahubble
- Resource ID
- opo0001a
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo0001a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2003-12-09T17:15:42+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
